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PAUL
CHURCHLAND
Contemporary American philosopher and professor at
the University of California, San Diego. Churchland’s
interests are the philosophy of science, the philosophy
of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive
neurobiology, epistemology, and perception. His
writing includes The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the
Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (1995).

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 Significant contributions
SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE PLASTICITY OF MIND

It is a work that encourages philosophers to embrace a scientific

perspective when it comes to understanding the mind. It challenges
traditional notions of mental states and calls for a more flexible and
empirically grounded approach to philosophy of mind.

ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM

Eliminative materialism or eliminativism is the radical claim

that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind
is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states
posited by common-sense do not actually exist.

CONNECTIONISM

It explains that the connections of neurons in our brains are parallel,

which means that sensory inputs are processed simultaneously and
not step by step. Thus, information can still be processed even if
some parts of the connections are damaged.